1976-77 Topps Basketball #129 Nate Archibald All-Star Basketball card

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Q1: How long have sports cards been around ?

(part 1)
The first baseball trading cards date back to 1869. For many years,
baseball cards were packaged in packs of tobacco as a way to increase sales
the same way that today prizes are packaged in boxes of cereal.
In the 1920's and 1930's, candy and gum companies started packaging baseball
cards in their products as well.

Baseball card production was virtually halted in the early 1940's due to paper
shortages created by World War II. The "Modern Era" of baseball cards began in
1948 when Bowman Gum Inc. offered one card and one piece of gum in a pack for a penny.

The first important football set was the Mayo set featuring college players
in 1984. Other than the 1935 National Chicle set no other key football set was
issued until 1948 when noth Bowman and Leaf produced sets.

The issue below is featured elsewhere on this website:

1974 Topps Stamps

Topps released this 240 stamp issue in 1974. These 1 by 1 1/2 stamp are
unnumbered and feature a color photo with the player's name, team and
position inside a colored oval at the bottom of the stamp. Very similar to
their 1969 Topps Stamps issue, the 1974 Topps Stamps were issued in panels
of 12 stamps. Alomg with the stamps, Topps also issued a set of 24 stamp
albums, one per team, to store the stamps. Due to double prints and different
combinations of stamps on panels there are actually 24 different 12-Stamp
panels. The stamps were not inserts but a totally separate issue and were
sold in packs containing one 12-Stamp panel along with one stamp album.

The 1974 Topps Stamps set is packed with SuperStars including over 23 members
of the Baseball Hall-of-Fame with greats such as Nolan Ryan, Hank Aaron,
Johnny Bench, Ernie Banks, Pete Rose, Reggie Jackson, Al Kaline, Joe Morgan,
Willie Stargell, Tom Seaver and plenty more !!! The set even contains
seldom seen ROOKIES of Dave Winfield and Dave Parker.

1971 O-Pee-Chee Baseball

Also referred to as OPC or Topps Canada, most vintage OPC sets were near replicas
of the Topps cards from that year. Exactly same in design they usually only
differed with the addition of French to the backs and some fronts.
To the benefit of collector's OPC made several changes in their 1971 set.
The most obvious and useful was a complete redesign of the card backs and the
addition of another player photo ! Additionly, over 20 cards were changed including
the inclusion of what could be considered the first "Traded" cards. Another
difference: Topps cards #202 and #289 were changed to allow the addition of 2
more Expos to the set.
The 1971 OPC set is legendary for its short print run, estimated at perhaps
just 5% of Topps’ Production. This issue is considered quite elusive, even in Canada. TOP ROOKIE: Steve Garvey TOP STARS: Nolan Ryan, Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks,
Pete Rose, Ted Williams, Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson, Don Baylor/Dusty Baker RC & MORE !!!